Motivational Quotes

Humankind

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Humankind

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Fuller, Buckminster

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

12.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

Fischer, Ernst

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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

25.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.